Marines Investigate Photo Posted On Web

[Samurai]

NEW ORLEANS - The Marines are investigating a photograph circulating on the Internet that depicts a soldier with two Iraqi boys and a sign, in English, proclaiming the soldier had killed one boy's father and impregnated the boy's sister.

NEW ORLEANS - The Marines are investigating a photograph circulating on the Internet that depicts a soldier with two Iraqi boys and a sign, in English, proclaiming the soldier had killed one boy's father and impregnated the boy's sister.

Source (http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040414/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/marines_photograph_1)

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[dwightfry]

It looks altared to me





It looks altared to me

[4th gen]

It looks quite funny

It looks quite funny

[Barbarossa]

It looks OK to me






It looks OK to me

[BigBank_Hank]

I really hope that this turns out to be an altered photo. First off there is already enough tension there and this surely won't do anything to help, and secondly this soldier is from my home state and I think that someone from Louisiana would have a little more sense than that. I know that cajuns are pretty damn crazy, but not stupid.

[Busyman]

Why would a marine post this anyway?
If it's real it was coerced.
But it's not real because an Arab is not going to say "knocked up".

[4th gen]

Originally posted by Busyman@14 April 2004 - 15:37
Why would a marine post this anyway?
If it's real it was coerced.
But it's not real because an Arab is not going to say "knocked up".
I'm pretty sure the soldier would have written it and given it to the boy. Though, the writing is pretty good for an American soldier

[Busyman]

Originally posted by 4th gen+14 April 2004 - 12:39--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (4th gen @ 14 April 2004 - 12:39)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Busyman@14 April 2004 - 15:37
Why would a marine post this anyway?
If it&#39;s real it was coerced.
But it&#39;s not real because an Arab is not going to say "knocked up".
I&#39;m pretty sure the soldier would have written it and given it to the boy. Though, the writing is pretty good for an American soldier [/b][/quote]
That&#39;s a good jab 4th gen. :lol: :lol: :lol:

[4th gen]

Originally posted by Busyman+14 April 2004 - 15:45--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Busyman @ 14 April 2004 - 15:45)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>
Originally posted by 4th gen@14 April 2004 - 12:39
<!--QuoteBegin-Busyman@14 April 2004 - 15:37
Why would a marine post this anyway?
If it&#39;s real it was coerced.
But it&#39;s not real because an Arab is not going to say "knocked up".
I&#39;m pretty sure the soldier would have written it and given it to the boy. Though, the writing is pretty good for an American soldier
That&#39;s a good jab 4th gen. :lol: :lol: :lol: [/b][/quote]
I aim to please B)

[j2k4]

Originally posted by 4th gen@14 April 2004 - 11:05
I aim to please B)
You don&#39;t aim to refrain? :huh:





You don&#39;t aim to refrain? :huh:



This photo issue would seem to fit well with the rhetoric which states that we are in the midst of another Viet Nam.

Soon the U.S. and Iraq will be inundated with illegitimate Iraqi/American children, international lawyers will seek child-support for them, soldiers will be disappearing in Iraq so as to assimilate and start families, we&#39;ll have a huge MIA-in-Iraq movement, etc.

Ah, the memories.... <_<

[dwightfry]

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Oh....it&#39;s been altared.

It&#39;s definitly been altared

(It took me 5 minutes)

[j2k4]

Thank you, Renfield ;)












Thank you, Renfield ;)

[J'Pol]

If this chap is a US Marine how long is it going to take for them to find out who he is.

Does he look like a US Marine to you, I&#39;m not convinced.

[blunt_on_tour]

Originally posted by j2k4+14 April 2004 - 17:22--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (j2k4 @ 14 April 2004 - 17:22)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-4th gen@14 April 2004 - 11:05
I aim to please&nbsp; B)
You don&#39;t aim to refrain? :huh:





You don&#39;t aim to refrain? :huh:



This photo issue would seem to fit well with the rhetoric which states that we are in the midst of another Viet Nam.

Soon the U.S. and Iraq will be inundated with illegitimate Iraqi/American children, international lawyers will seek child-support for them, soldiers will be disappearing in Iraq so as to assimilate and start families, we&#39;ll have a huge MIA-in-Iraq movement, etc.

Ah, the memories.... <_< [/b][/quote]
That&#39;s nothing - two Kosovans have just successfully sued the British government because a platoon of British soldiers returned fire on them when they were shot at :rolleyes: True. They were awarded over £100,000 each ~(about &#036;180,000).

A good incentive for implimenting a shoot to kill policy, I say :D

[Biggles]

If genuine, then presumably it was a squaddie joke done for the mess hall that has somehow got out into the wider arena. Soldiers tend to have a slightly dark (warped) sense of humour.

As I said, if genuine, he will be peeling a lot of potatoes for a week or two.

[j2k4]

Could be a bit rougher than K.P.; I imagine the military courts would have a field day adjudicating "internet pranks".

If such is the case, I think this would be dealt with rather severely. ;)

[Joakim Agren]

Hello&#33;

Since analyzing photos on the web is one of my hobbys I took the challenge and analyzed this one. It appears to me that the boys and the soldier where really there and took that picture. What has been altered is the text on the card board. What is originally said is unknown. Ridiculus that the marine did not realise taht and started an investigation.

It really shows how paranoid the US government have become&#33; :ghostface:

[Biggles]

J2

Indeed, and will no doubt be joined by the clown who thought a live shell would be a good momento and injured several friends on the boat home when it blew up.

Explosive safety courses are clearly not what they used to be. :ph34r:

[j2k4]

It would also be true that the variety of possible "explosions" has broadened considerably. :D